Dinner at Eight (1933)

Jean Harlow: Kitty Packard

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• Kitty : [Final lines]  I was reading a book the other day.

  Carlotta : [Nearly trips]  Reading a book?

  Kitty : Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?

  Carlotta : [Looking her over]  Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.

• Dan Packard : Remember what I told you last week?

  Kitty Packard : I don't remember what you told me a minute ago.

• Kitty : [wearing a backless gown]  You know, my skin's terribly delicate and I don't dare expose it.

• Kitty : I like it in New York in the summer! Gee, I've had some swell times on Penthouse parties.

  Hattie Loomis : All my life I've wanted to be a Penthouse girl.

  Ed Loomis : [Skeptically]  Yeh, you'd be good at that.

• Dan Packard : So, you'd make a sucker out of me?

  Kitty : Well, I certainly ain't tryin' to make a gentleman out of ya. But, I'm gonna be a lady if it kills me.

• Kitty : That slug never wants to meet any refined people.

• Kitty Packard : Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the mens' room at the Astor!

• Kitty : I've told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes!

• Kitty : [stage whispers during the dinner]  Go on, tell Jordan.

  Dan Packard : Shut up.

  Kitty : Go on and tell 'em.

  Dan Packard : Shut up.

  Kitty : If ya don't, you'll be sorry as long as you live.

  Dan Packard : Shut up, shut up, shut up. Sh - shut up.

• Millicent Jordan : [Talking on the phone]  Don't you want to know the date?

  Kitty : Oh, sure, honey. Friday. A week from tonight. Dinner at Eight.

• Dan Packard : How'd you like to be a Cabinet member's wife? Mingle with all the other Cabinet members' wives and the Ambassadors.

  Kitty : Nertz! You're not going to drag me down to that graveyard. I seen their pictures in the papers, those girlies. A lot of sour-faced frumps with last year's clothes on. Pinning medals on girl scouts and pouring tea for the DARs and rolling Easter eggs on the White House lawn.

  [Sarcastically] 

  Kitty : A swell lot of fun I'd have. You go live in Washington! I can have a good time right here.

• Dan Packard : I'm the works around here and I'll give you orders what to do!

  Kitty : Who do you think you're talkin' to? That first wife of yours out in Montana?

  Dan Packard : Now you leave her out of this.

  Kitty : That poor mealy-faced thing, with her flat chest, that didn't have nerve enough to talk up to you?

• [last lines] 

  Kitty : I was reading a book the other day.

  Carlotta : [shocked at the thought]  Reading a book?

  Kitty : Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?

  Carlotta : Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.

• Kitty : Doctor Talbot says that you're an extrovert and I'm a introvert.

  Dan Packard : A what?

  Kitty : A introvert, you dummy! And that's why I gotta be quiet a good deal and have time to reflect in.

  Dan Packard : Reflect in? What have you got to reflect about? I have to think and act at the same time!

• Kitty : Once in our life we get asked to a classy house and I got a new dress that will knock their eye out and we're going!

  Dan Packard : We're not going!

  Kitty : We are so!

• Kitty : You never come and see me anymore unless I send for you.

  Dr. Wayne Talbot : Now, listen, Kitty, I've been very busy. You know how busy I've been.

  Kitty : But, I'm so lonely for you, Wayne. And you know how I need you! I don't do anything all day except just long for you.

  Dr. Wayne Talbot : Well, why don't ya - why don't ya try and read?

• Dan Packard : Do you know why I'm going to Washington tonight? Because the President wants to consult me about the affairs of the nation. That's why.

  Kitty : What's the matter with them.

  Dan Packard : Everythings the matter with them. That's why he's sending for me.

• Kitty : Holy cat! Hand me that phone you nitwit!

• Kitty : Presidents and Washington and all those rummies! But you can't goes anywheres with me!

• Kitty : What are you going to do about it - you big gas bag?

• Kitty Packard : Gee, that sounds swell to me!

• Kitty : Yeah, you're so smart you're going land in jail some day.

• Tina : Here's a new hat.

  Kitty : Oh, goodie!

• Kitty : You big crook! You pull a dirty deal and it ruins my social chances!

• Kitty : Tina, were are my slippers!

• Dan Packard : Listen, you little piece of scum, you. I've got a good notion to drop you right back where I picked you up in the check room of the Hottentot Club, or wherever the dirty joint was.

  Kitty : Oh, no you won't!

  Dan Packard : And you can go back to that sweet-smelling family of yours back of the railroad tracks in Passaic. And get this--if that sniveling, money-grubbing, whining old mother of yours comes fooling around my offices anymore, I'm going to give orders to have her thrown down the 60 flights of stairs, so help me!